However, while the ten texts that precede it revolve around a “making theory” that has already been defined (by men, long ago, we no longer know), “ Ranger/Déranger” moves the theory into a space that is unknown to it: the domestic space. “Feminine writing” would be the result of a biological and social condition, and would allow the emergence of new forms of writing, far from the masculine carcass of “speaking straight, with square words, with straight sentences, in orthodoxy.” defending a difference between the sexes that should be valued as such, particularly in the field of arts and literature. This text, entitled “ Ranger/Déranger”, closes a corpus of texts dedicated to women and theory, whose editorial reveals the disagreements and debates that marked its publication: halfway through the 24 issues of Sorcières, “ Théorie” breaks an editorial balance that had hitherto been “differentialist”, i.e. In 1978, Marianne Alphant wrote a short text for the French literary and feminist periodical Sorcières, whose bimonthly and then quarterly publications nourished a nascent network of women artists, theorists, writers and even housewives. By exhausting themselves, even if they are blind to the task, it is no longer a question of thinking, reflecting or even theorizing: “She who does not theorize squints her weak and myopic eyes, made for the crumb and the anecdote.” Tidy up and disturb is the loop of actions so well known by housewives.
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